From nobody Mon Feb 9 00:00:54 2026 Received: from smtpout-04.galae.net (smtpout-04.galae.net [185.171.202.116]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E05938FF1F; Thu, 8 Jan 2026 08:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.171.202.116 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767859276; cv=none; b=tmkDxg3CRa8EP8m0n0ZqbEEYwjI2btj/Cz+VqATiQGVtxdcE5oTm80CNBbAfv+l5D5D2c7s9jpW6RoxWk6qW35WyT9ORM8ycJueM48PwDcXifOH3Xuk6Fwt5MdysuecohL0jrgiT/loC0n8atg6G2QdNNB8dU8RpZgQ98IGBtGQ= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767859276; c=relaxed/simple; bh=wtjYKSm0VitCRmzBe0g+meOa0FLKzhzDX42U4HjgOW0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=Sd4i/P6fbk9lSJbr64Sd5dvxAsxmzvpGNYkbbg1E5ptfK/fs9nnIihyyp/LRdglskADCMrHGh1mNiVxOkbsT7FNUehgJ7K2X4ERjf8XpA104xQhm4ild0XQNmtWfVJmG1/ZzwbVvpW2odGJQV2VpSOarQq2EG3jSonwu/cosL+E= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=bootlin.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bootlin.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=bootlin.com header.i=@bootlin.com header.b=W1bIN75R; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.171.202.116 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=bootlin.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bootlin.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=bootlin.com header.i=@bootlin.com header.b="W1bIN75R" Received: from smtpout-01.galae.net (smtpout-01.galae.net [212.83.139.233]) by smtpout-04.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7712C1ECB0; Thu, 8 Jan 2026 08:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.galae.net (mail.galae.net [212.83.136.155]) by smtpout-01.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0CF23606B6; Thu, 8 Jan 2026 08:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Mailerdaemon) with ESMTPSA id EBDC8103C86C8; Thu, 8 Jan 2026 09:00:52 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=dkim; t=1767859256; h=from:subject:date:message-id:to:cc:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:references; bh=Wcv1FNWPv9KBz1eSig7z4zxf2TbFU4dvgeo99rkjZMU=; b=W1bIN75RBzFu/Hp+SiJ7o6AVYBJMIpoHSKrm26jQtdBGBx5Sa5cLL1+lzZ1PF1IKnIIMFu LYHpzfU6lZ1NhOKK/sbez2QwIf2Tvt3IutpgxlUv5Xpku4GV1n/Q51Hk/iRno8iWXJSeBL V4GVa77H7LK55e+hRkhgOFKGJBQSgdEWjr4eDgZezNfqoXpCR7300gEEnvvps460KKjsZh JjTSdLb4dYvCJsmum9t6G/F5U6ZtBGXeSUqXWT09o54BroJze9NFXSo3vnxoDo0tUreZgU sxV88+NI1RkJUo1vIGf7B7etUR5YFCizddg1ZoHAXIkaFzhUoIJEXBwiB2nGPA== From: Maxime Chevallier To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: Maxime Chevallier , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, Andrew Lunn , Jakub Kicinski , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Christophe Leroy , Herve Codina , Florian Fainelli , Heiner Kallweit , Vladimir Oltean , =?UTF-8?q?K=C3=B6ry=20Maincent?= , =?UTF-8?q?Marek=20Beh=C3=BAn?= , Oleksij Rempel , =?UTF-8?q?Nicol=C3=B2=20Veronese?= , Simon Horman , mwojtas@chromium.org, Antoine Tenart , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Conor Dooley , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Rob Herring , Romain Gantois , Daniel Golle , Dimitri Fedrau , Tariq Toukan Subject: [PATCH net-next v22 01/14] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 09:00:26 +0100 Message-ID: <20260108080041.553250-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.49.0 In-Reply-To: <20260108080041.553250-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> References: <20260108080041.553250-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Last-TLS-Session-Version: TLSv1.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The ability to describe the physical ports of Ethernet devices is useful to describe multi-port devices, as well as to remove any ambiguity with regard to the nature of the port. Moreover, describing ports allows for a better description of features that are tied to connectors, such as PoE through the PSE-PD devices. Introduce a binding to allow describing the ports, for now with 2 attributes : - The number of pairs, which is a quite generic property that allows differentating between multiple similar technologies such as BaseT1 and "regular" BaseT (which usually means BaseT4). - The media that can be used on that port, such as BaseT for Twisted Copper, BaseC for coax copper, BaseS/L for Fiber, BaseK for backplane ethernet, etc. This allows defining the nature of the port, and therefore avoids the need for vendor-specific properties such as "micrel,fiber-mode" or "ti,fiber-mode". The port description lives in its own file, as it is intended in the future to allow describing the ports for phy-less devices. Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) --- .../bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml | 56 +++++++++++++++++++ .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 18 ++++++ MAINTAINERS | 1 + 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connecto= r.yaml diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml = b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9ad7a00d4d01 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) +%YAML 1.2 +--- +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/net/ethernet-connector.yaml# +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml# + +title: Generic Ethernet Connector + +maintainers: + - Maxime Chevallier + +description: + An Ethernet Connector represents the output of a network component such = as + a PHY, an Ethernet controller with no PHY, or an SFP module. + +properties: + + pairs: + description: + Defines the number of BaseT pairs that are used on the connector. + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32 + enum: [1, 2, 4] + + media: + description: + The mediums, as defined in 802.3, that can be used on the port. + enum: + - BaseT + - BaseK + - BaseS + - BaseC + - BaseL + - BaseD + - BaseE + - BaseF + - BaseV + - BaseMLD + +required: + - media + +allOf: + - if: + properties: + media: + const: BaseT + then: + required: + - pairs + else: + properties: + pairs: false + +additionalProperties: true + +... diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml b/Docu= mentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml index bb4c49fc5fd8..58634fee9fc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml @@ -281,6 +281,17 @@ properties: =20 additionalProperties: false =20 + mdi: + type: object + + patternProperties: + '^connector-[0-9]+$': + $ref: /schemas/net/ethernet-connector.yaml# + + unevaluatedProperties: false + + additionalProperties: false + required: - reg =20 @@ -317,5 +328,12 @@ examples: default-state =3D "keep"; }; }; + /* Fast Ethernet port, with only 2 pairs wired */ + mdi { + connector-0 { + pairs =3D <2>; + media =3D "BaseT"; + }; + }; }; }; diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 765ad2daa218..c0e79c324c62 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -9394,6 +9394,7 @@ R: Russell King L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-phydev +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio* F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qca,ar803x.yaml --=20 2.49.0